Pension for Life - The life cycle timeline to 2019
Minister of Veterans Affairs
Pension for Life - The life cycle timeline to 2019
Transcript
Another question that we’ve been getting is the timeline. “Why
is it going to take until April 2019 to set up Pension for
Life?” I wish I could get it done faster, in some ways. And in
some ways, no. And I’ll tell you why. Government doesn’t work
nearly as fast as we’d all like it to. But in this instance
maybe that’s not a bad thing. We’re introducing legislation in
the next few weeks, we’re drafting it now. That takes time to
get through the House, though the Senate. Also, you know, it
goes through Committee. And our Veterans Affairs Committee will
look at this, they will call witnesses, they will talk to
people, and that’s a very important part of the consultation
process. And while all that is occurring, we are going to have
to go to seek money to hire people, we’re going to have to hire
more people, we’re going to have to train people to write the
computer programs and to make sure this doesn’t happen without a
glitch. You know, we’ve been contrite as a government, we don’t
always get these very complex computer systems that pay people
regularly, we don’t always get that right. We have an
obligation to get it right though. So we want to make sure we
have time to smooth out those kinks. Will it happen fast enough?
For me, no. But if we can use that time to make sure that when
we roll this out, that it is done as smoothly as possible and
lowers the anxiety level for Veterans and their families,then
that’s not a bad thing. And again, very important that if you
fall in the New Veterans Charter, and you’ve received a lump
sum from 2006 onwards, and you’ve already received it, then this
also pertains to you, it’s retrospective. So we’re going back
and we’re going to figure out how much we owe you and we’re
going to figure that out. That in itself also takes time but
we’re determined to get this right.
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Another question that we’ve been getting is the timeline.
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- Veterans Affairs Canada
- Recorded:
- March 6, 2018
- Duration:
- 1:45
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